What we didn’t know about yoga

“The first single, reliable collection of primary material from the source traditions of yoga” – now that’s a statement to make about a new book. And it doesn’t just come from anyone, it comes from renowned publisher Penguin.

And then this: “Imagine you’re a guppy in a fishbowl” […], says Yoga Journal, but “lately, the waves have picked up. Your water is sloshing and swirling”. Uh oh.

Now this got me curious. A new book, about yoga, that is going to be able to reveal the “Roots of Yoga“? (Yes, that’s the title of the book by Oxford Sanskritist Jim Mallinson and Mark Singleton).

Says Penguin: “This book brings together, for the first time, the core teachings of yoga in the words of their authors, rather than in the secondary versions of modern interpreters.”

What are some of these surprising things we didn’t know about yoga history*?: